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Adriaan Blaauw

1914 - 2010

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Adriaan Blaauw (12 April 1914 – 1 December 2010) was a Dutch astronomer. Blaauw was born in Amsterdam to Cornelis Blaauw and Gesina Clasina Zwart, and studied at Leiden University and the University of Groningen, obtaining his doctorate at the latter in 1946. In 1948, he was appointed an associate professor at Leiden. In the 1950s he worked a few years at the Yerkes Observatory, before returning to Europe in 1957 to become director of the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in Groningen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adriaan Blaauw is the 181st most popular astronomer (up from 232nd in 2019), the 263rd most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 420th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Dutch Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Adriaan Blaauw ranks 181 out of 644. Before him are Franz Xaver von Zach, Guillaume Bigourdan, Nikolai Chernykh, Jean Picard, Henry Draper, and Seleucus of Seleucia. After him are Edwin Ernest Salpeter, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, Gan De, Norman Lockyer, George Phillips Bond, and Luigi Ferdinando Marsili.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Adriaan Blaauw ranks 89. Before him are Taizo Kawamoto, Woody Strode, Edmund Conen, Achille Compagnoni, David Goodall, and Lina Bo Bardi. After him are Lazar Koliševski, Nicolas de Staël, Pietro Germi, John Kerr, Edward T. Hall, and Ferenc Fricsay. Among people deceased in 2010, Adriaan Blaauw ranks 70. Before him are Patricia Neal, Alexander Haig, Erich Segal, Wolfgang Wagner, Johan Ferrier, and Guido de Marco. After him are Mario Monicelli, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Israel Tal, Peter Graves, Maurice Wilkes, and Ariel Ramírez.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Adriaan Blaauw ranks 263 out of 1,646. Before him are Cornelis van Haarlem (1562), Ton Koopman (1944), William II, Duke of Bavaria (1365), Guido van Rossum (1956), Cornelis de Houtman (1565), and Yolanda Hadid (1964). After him are Wim Eijk (1953), Tiësto (1969), Fanny Blankers-Koen (1918), Geert Adriaans Boomgaard (1788), Pieter van Laer (1599), and Sicco Mansholt (1908).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Netherlands

Among astronomers born in Netherlands, Adriaan Blaauw ranks 9. Before him are Gerard Kuiper (1905), Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692), Tom Gehrels (1925), Jacobus Kapteyn (1851), Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920), and John Goodricke (1764). After him are Maarten Schmidt (1929), Hendrik van Gent (1900), Michael van Langren (1598), Walter Lewin (1936), Dirk Brouwer (1902), and Peter van de Kamp (1901).

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